Thanks for another great CMJ Music Marathon—See you in 2015!

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Play It Strange

Tracklist:

01. Summer Of Love

02. Warerfall

03. Until The End Of Time

04. Tropical Island Suite

05. All Shook Up

06. Be My Hooker

07. Fascinated

08. Plague Of Frogs

09. Who Needs A Man

10. Red Light Green

11. I'm A Thief

The Fresh And Onlys must be Johnny Cash fans. The best track on the band’s third album, “Until The End Of Time,” borrows heavily from the Man In Black’s trademark country twang, yet it presents it through the lens of lo-fi indie pop. The result is a song (and an album) that feels Southern while not abandoning the summery tendencies that have been associated with lo-fi recently. The band experiments with a seven-and-a-half minute track, appropriately titled “Tropical Island Suite,” which weaves through different soundscapes before culminating with a beautiful piano coda. It seems that this band really is fresh and only, for it has music brimming with originality via masterful combinations of genres.